What enclosure do I need?

[fmg420]

Have this internal NEC DVD burner and I want to use it as an external dvd burner on my laptop. What external enclosure do I need? Any help appreciated. thanks

This is the burner.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NEC-ND250B

 

[Zepper]

You can use any standard 5" USB 2 or Firewire drive enclosure - they will handle anything from the slowest LS-120 to the fastest PATA HD. A lot of the ATF denizens seem to like the Bytecc ones and the ADS units are also good, but high priced. From the looks of things, your a Brit. I'm fairly sure they sell the Bytecc brand there, not sure about ADS (might be under another name).

.bh.

 

[fmg420]

nah im in the US that just the only site i could find that had the drive. Anyway i have an external enclosure the houses a hard drive the the enclosure is a 3.5" and when i put the internal drive next to it it seems way to big to fit inthere.

 

[Zepper]

Yeah, they have 5" enclosures and 3" enclosures - you can put anything into the 5" ones (with appropriate adapters) - the 3" ones are usually only for HDs but sometimes Zip/LS-120 or tape drives can go in there too. They also have USB to IDE adapter cables without enclosures for around $20-25 bucks.

.bh.

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